Claim · model-written summary
Pea greatly increased dry weight in darkness on sugar-containing nutrient solution.
- Taxon
- pea
Lathyrus oleraceuse0 - Treatment
- nutrient solutions containing these sugarse0
- Outcome
- dry weightse0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Setting
- in the darke0
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Verbatim
e0“The pea, alfalfa, radish, and timothy can greatly increase their dry weights when grown in the dark on nutrient solutions containing these sugars.”
Title
Influence of Certain Sugars on Higher Plants
J. M. Brannon Botanical Gazette 1923. doi:10.1086/333200
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Apart from timothy, the results did not support fructose being superior to glucose for tissue formation.
- Intervention effect Fructose tended to be toxic to pea roots under the experimental conditions.
- Intervention effect Fructose tended to be toxic to alfalfa roots under the experimental conditions.
- Intervention effect Fructose tended to be toxic to Bryophyllum roots under the experimental conditions.
- Observation Fructose toxicity was temporary in some cases.
- Intervention effect The mixed sugar solution had no injurious effect on pea.
- Intervention effect Alfalfa greatly increased dry weight in darkness on sugar-containing nutrient solution.
- Intervention effect Radish greatly increased dry weight in darkness on sugar-containing nutrient solution.
- Intervention effect Timothy greatly increased dry weight in darkness on sugar-containing nutrient solution.
- Observation In one or two instances, dry weight approached ten times seed weight.